Cash-register box.



PATENTED' MAY 31, 1904.

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CASH REGISTER BOX.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 15, 1902.

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CASH REGISTER BOX.

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UNITED STATES ratented May 31, 1904.

PATENT OFFICE.

ERNST OTTO BATHEN, OF MYLAU, GERMANY.

CASH-REGISTER BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters lE atent N'o. 761,135, dated May 31, 1904.

Application filed September 15, 1902. Serial No. 123,;43. (N0 model.)

To all whovn it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERNST OTTo BATHEN, a subject of the Emperor of Germany, residing at Mylau, Saxony, Germany, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cash- Register Boxes; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to devices for receiving and recording cash, and has for its object the simplification and cheapening of the construction and the improvement of the operation of such devices.

With this object in view the invention consists in the improved construction, arrangement, and combination of parts of a cash-recorder, all as hereinafter fully described and afterwards specifically claimed.

I have illustrated an embodiment of my invention in the accompanying drawings, in

' which Figure 1 represents a longitudinal vertical sectional view on the line A B of Fig. 2. Fig. 2 represents a plan view with the cover removed to expose the interior. Fig. 3 represents a longitudinal vertical sectional view on the line C D of Fig. 2. Fig. 45 represents a top plan view. Figs. 5, 6, 7, and 8 are partial longitudinal vertical sections illustrating the action of the slide-plate, scraper, and cashplate, Fig. 5 showing the parts in their normal positions ready for an operation, Fig. 6 in the positions assumed after a partial movement of the slide-plate to the right, Fig. 7 in the positions assumed at the end of the righthand movement, and Fig. 8 in the positions assumed when the return or left-hand movement is nearly completed.

Like letters of reference mark the same parts in all the figures of the drawings.

Referring to the drawings by letters, A indicates the box or casing for containing the operative mechanism, said box being of any suitable shape and material and provided in its top with a cash-plate a, hinged at a in a suitable opening and free to drop into the box when unsupported. The box is further provided with an opening in line longitudinally with cash-plate a, in which is secured a pane of glass 6, and with a second opening 0, which contains a plate m, slightly shorter than the opening and covered with a glass plate of a size to leave a slot or opening q, Fig. 4:, between the glass and the edge of the opening.

In the box are arranged guides, as d, to receive a slide-plate d, normally held in its left-hand position, as in Fig. 1, by means of a spring 6. To the left-hand end of the slideplate d is secured a rod 9, which at its end f engages one arm of an elbow-lever 7i, pivoted in the box and projecting through the front end thereof, where it terminates in a knob or key K. The right-hand end of slide-plate d is bent upward at it and horizontally forming a tongue which when the slide is in its left-hand position, as in Figs. 1, 5, and 8, engages a projection 2' on the under side of cashplate a and holds the cash-plate up in its closed position.

A stripl of paper is provided, wound upon a roll Z and passesup through the ends of opening 0, over plate m, and down again into the box to a receiving-roll n, which is actuated one step at each operation of the slideplate d to wind up the strip by apawl 0, carried by the slide-plate and engaging a ratchetwheel p on roll a, (during the right-hand movement of the plate,) said pawl being free to pass over the ratchet-wheel during the backward or left-hand movement of the slideplate.

A scraper r is hinged above the slide-plate free to move to the left, but prevented by a stop w from moving from its vertical position toward the right, and an arm a is pivotally mounted at one end of the scraper free to move in either direction and arranged to carry scraper r with it in its left-hand movement by striking the pin 8 on the scraper, such movement of the arm a being effected by a projection '12 on slide-plate d, as hereinafter described.

The operation of the invention is as follows: A sale having been made, the amount thereof is entered on strip l through slot q, the cash placed on cash-plate a, and the key or knob K depressed. This causes slide plate d to move to the right, permitting cash-plate a to drop to the position shown in Figs. 8 and 6, thus depositing the cash on the slide-plate. At the same time the pawl 0 engages ratchetwheel 1), winding strip Zone step on roll a and moving the entry made on the slip under the glass plate m, where it is exposed for inspection. The arm u when the slide-plate is still farther moved to the right drops off the projection .2, as in Fig. 7, and when the slide-plate is returned by the spring a after the money falls on the slide-plate is pushed to the left, Fig. 8, by projection 1), thus raising the scraper 9' so that it passes over the money on the slide-plate and permits the money to be brought under the glass 6 for inspection. After the next sale the slide-plate is moved to the right by pressing knob K. The projcction 1; now raises the arm to, and after passing under it drops it to its vertical position against the scraper r, which in the movement of the slide-plate to the right has scraped the money of prior sale off the left-hand end of the slide-plate and dropped it into a cashdrawer S.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. In a cash-recorder a box provided with a cash-plate hinged in an opening in the top thereof, and with a second opening in line with the cash-plate fitted with a glass pane, in combination with a horizontal slide-plate in the box under the openings, connections between the slide-plate and cash-plate, whereby the latter is supported by the former in its closed position, means for reciprocating the slide-plate and dropping the cash-plate, a cashdrawer below the slide-plate, and means for scraping the money off the slide-plate into said drawer, substantially as described.

2. In a cash-recorder a box provided with ahinged cash-plate and inspection-plate in the top thereof, in combination with a horizontal reciprocatory slide-plate under said plates, a projection on the slide-plate for holding the cash-plate closed in the rear position of the slide-plate and dropping it in the forward position thereof, a recording-slip, receiving and delivering rolls therefor, and means carried by the slide-plate for actuating the receivingrolls during each reciprocation .of the slideplate, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

ERNST OTTO BA"HEN.

In presence of- FRANZ N EUMANN, EMIL SCHMIDT. 

